diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index ed3a3675a..638c0aa69 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ linux-snap:
     paths:
     - scripts/parity_*_amd64.snap
     name: "stable-x86_64-unknown-snap-gnu_parity"
-  allow_failure: true  
+  allow_failure: true
 linux-stable-debian:
   stage: build
   image: parity/rust-debian:gitlab-ci
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ linux-i686:
     - strip target/$PLATFORM/release/parity
     - strip target/$PLATFORM/release/parity-evm
     - strip target/$PLATFORM/release/ethstore
-    - strip target/$PLATFORM/release/ethkey   
+    - strip target/$PLATFORM/release/ethkey
     - strip target/$PLATFORM/release/parity
     - md5sum target/$PLATFORM/release/parity > parity.md5
     - export SHA3=$(target/$PLATFORM/release/parity tools hash target/$PLATFORM/release/parity)
@@ -627,8 +627,12 @@ js-test:
     - git submodule update --init --recursive
     - export JS_FILES_MODIFIED=$(git --no-pager diff --name-only $CI_BUILD_REF^ $CI_BUILD_REF | grep ^js/ | wc -l)
     - if [ $JS_FILES_MODIFIED -eq 0 ]; then echo "Skipping JS deps install since no JS files modified."; else ./js/scripts/install-deps.sh;fi
+    - export JS_OLD_FILES_MODIFIED=$(git --no-pager diff --name-only $CI_BUILD_REF^ $CI_BUILD_REF | grep ^js-old/ | wc -l)
+    - if [ $JS_OLD_FILES_MODIFIED -eq 0  ]; then echo "Skipping JS (old) deps install since no JS files modified."; else ./js-old/scripts/install-deps.sh;fi
+
   script:
     - if [ $JS_FILES_MODIFIED -eq 0 ]; then echo "Skipping JS lint since no JS files modified."; else ./js/scripts/lint.sh && ./js/scripts/test.sh && ./js/scripts/build.sh; fi
+    - if [ $JS_OLD_FILES_MODIFIED -eq 0 ]; then echo "Skipping JS (old) lint since no JS files modified."; else ./js-old/scripts/lint.sh && ./js-old/scripts/test.sh && ./js-old/scripts/build.sh; fi
   tags:
     - rust
     - rust-stable
@@ -679,10 +683,17 @@ js-release:
     - export JS_FILES_MODIFIED=$(git --no-pager diff --name-only $CI_BUILD_REF^ $CI_BUILD_REF | grep ^js/ | wc -l)
     - echo $JS_FILES_MODIFIED
     - if [ $JS_FILES_MODIFIED -eq 0  ]; then echo "Skipping JS deps install since no JS files modified."; else ./js/scripts/install-deps.sh;fi
+    - export JS_OLD_FILES_MODIFIED=$(git --no-pager diff --name-only $CI_BUILD_REF^ $CI_BUILD_REF | grep ^js-old/ | wc -l)
+    - echo $JS_OLD_FILES_MODIFIED
+    - if [ $JS_OLD_FILES_MODIFIED -eq 0  ]; then echo "Skipping JS (old) deps install since no JS files modified."; else ./js-old/scripts/install-deps.sh;fi
+
   script:
     - rustup default stable
     - echo $JS_FILES_MODIFIED
     - if [ $JS_FILES_MODIFIED -eq 0 ]; then echo "Skipping JS rebuild since no JS files modified."; else ./js/scripts/build.sh && ./js/scripts/release.sh; fi
+    - echo $JS_OLD_FILES_MODIFIED
+    - if [ $JS_OLD_FILES_MODIFIED -eq 0 ]; then echo "Skipping JS (old) rebuild since no JS files modified."; else ./js-old/scripts/build.sh && ./js-old/scripts/release.sh; fi
+
   tags:
     - javascript
 push-release:
diff --git a/dapps/ui/Cargo.toml b/dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
index b16769bd4..8d254b177 100644
--- a/dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ rustc_version = "0.1"
 [dependencies]
 parity-ui-dev = { path = "../../js", optional = true }
 parity-ui-old-dev = { path = "../../js-old", optional = true }
-parity-ui-old-precompiled = { git = "https://github.com/paritytech/js-precompiled.git", optional = true, branch = "v1" }
 # This is managed by the js/scripts/release.sh script on CI - keep it in a single line
+parity-ui-old-precompiled = { git = "https://github.com/paritytech/js-precompiled.git", optional = true, branch = "v1" }
 parity-ui-precompiled = { git = "https://github.com/paritytech/js-precompiled.git", optional = true, branch = "master" }
 
 [features]
diff --git a/js-old/scripts/release.sh b/js-old/scripts/release.sh
index d1d9cfacb..ad381eb2c 100755
--- a/js-old/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/js-old/scripts/release.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -e
 # variables
 UTCDATE=`date -u "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"`
 PACKAGES=( "parity" "etherscan" "shapeshift" "jsonrpc" )
-BRANCH=$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME
+BRANCH="v1"
 GIT_JS_PRECOMPILED="https://${GITHUB_JS_PRECOMPILED}:@github.com/paritytech/js-precompiled.git"
 GIT_PARITY="https://${GITHUB_JS_PRECOMPILED}:@github.com/paritytech/parity.git"
 
@@ -57,40 +57,11 @@ setup_git_user
 git remote set-url origin $GIT_PARITY
 git reset --hard origin/$BRANCH 2>$GITLOG
 
-if [ "$BRANCH" == "master" ]; then
-  cd js
-
-  echo "*** Bumping package.json patch version"
-  npm --no-git-tag-version version
-  npm version patch
-
-  echo "*** Building packages for npmjs"
-  echo "$NPM_TOKEN" >> ~/.npmrc
-
-  # build jsonrpc
-  echo "*** Building JSONRPC .json"
-  mkdir -p .npmjs/jsonrpc
-  npm run ci:build:jsonrpc
-
-  for PACKAGE in ${PACKAGES[@]}
-  do
-    echo "*** Building $PACKAGE"
-    LIBRARY=$PACKAGE npm run ci:build:npm
-    DIRECTORY=.npmjs/$PACKAGE
-
-    echo "*** Publishing $PACKAGE from $DIRECTORY"
-    cd $DIRECTORY
-    npm publish --access public || true
-    cd ../..
-  done
-
-  cd ..
-fi
-
-echo "*** Updating cargo parity-ui-precompiled#$PRECOMPILED_HASH"
+echo "*** Updating cargo parity-ui-old-precompiled#$PRECOMPILED_HASH"
 git submodule update
-sed -i "/^parity-ui-precompiled/ { s/branch = \".*\"/branch = \"$BRANCH\"/g; }" dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
-cargo update -p parity-ui-precompiled
+# Not needed since $BRANCH is hardcoded
+# sed -i "/^parity-ui-old-precompiled/ { s/branch = \".*\"/branch = \"$BRANCH\"/g; }" dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
+cargo update -p parity-ui-old-precompiled
 # --precise "$PRECOMPILED_HASH"
 
 echo "*** Committing updated files"
diff --git a/js-old/scripts/update-precompiled.sh b/js-old/scripts/update-precompiled.sh
index 0b9461bf0..ebbab5046 100755
--- a/js-old/scripts/update-precompiled.sh
+++ b/js-old/scripts/update-precompiled.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ set -e
 pushd `dirname $0`
 cd ../../
 
-cargo update -p parity-ui-precompiled
+cargo update -p parity-ui-old-precompiled
 
 popd
 exit 0